An Interview with _____Andrei Chikatilo____ 

By: ​YOUR FIRST AND LAST NAME HERE 

We are in a visitation room in a prison where he is being held in solitary 

Transcript of Interview 
   
Questions  Answers 
1  What were your parents like?  My mother was heatless and during 
my younger years I would bed wet 
and as for punishment she would 
beat me. My father however was a 
coward and lead to much of the 
ridicule i would get when he came 
back from the war after being 
captured and surrendering to the 
Germans. 

2  How did you meet your wife?  My sister, Tatyana, had I think felt 
bad for me and so one day she set 
me up with one of her friends, 
Fayina. Who would later be my wife 
and mother my two kids as well. 

3  What is your earliest school  When I was younger I was very much 
memory?  the target of all bullies due to me 
bed wetting and my father. My first 
memory would have to be when this 
boy and his friends who were much 
bigger than me began to circle 
around me and continue to mock 
 me on my appearance. I was a very 
scrawny child and much shorter 
compared to all the other boys. 

4  Did you read any literature and if  During my childhood I read a lot 
so what was it about?  about German prisoners being held 
by the soviet and how they were 
being tortured. It was a topic I 
found much interest in and read as 
many books I could find on it.  

5  Do you have any religion or faith?  I do not believe in any God, I grew 
up to believe that there was no real 
God out there and I had no hope. 
My childhood was cruel and it 
brought me to have a realization 
that if there was a God out there he 
would have done better for me. 
Religion is for people who have 
hope and for people with excuses, I 
am a person who realized the truth. 

6  What was your memory of your first  My first murder was Yelena 
kill?  Zakotnova, or at least I think it was 
something like that. I remember her 
short hair and I had invited her into 
a home I had secretly bought. 
However I had no fear of any sort 
during this act, I felt almost 
emotionless. I do remember her 
struggling and screaming so I did 
begin to get somewhat angry and I 
had choked her then stabbing her 
three times. That was only the 
beginning.  

7  How did you choose your victims?  They were all timid and very 
vulnerable. I would go to the train 
station and wait to pick my next 
target. All these people were either 
runaways, trancients, or children 
and I knew they were people who 
were not of importance. I picked my 
victims who I felt I needed to 
cleanses society and were less likely 
to be of a big deal and for me to 
get caught. 
 8  How were you able to stay in hiding  The people I had killed were people 
for so long?  out of the blew and of no real 
importance and I knew at the time I 
was of least to be a suspect. 
However I did not think it would 
take them as long as 15 years to 
finally find me, that was somewhat 
of a surprise to me.  

9  Why did you cut the eyes out of  I took their eyes out because I was 
your victims?  afraid my image was going to be 
imprinted on there eyes after death. 
I removed them to prevent my 
identity from being known.   

10  Do you feel remorse for what you  I have no feeling for what I did to 
did? If not then why not?  those people, I feel as if I was 
helping society by riding people 
who were timid and not needed.